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Pirates Call Up Keon Broxton, Kang Placed on 60-Day DL

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have officially announced the call up of outfielder Keon Broxton from Indianapolis. To make room on the 40-man roster for Broxton, Jung-Ho Kang was placed on the 60-day disabled list. As first reported here yesterday, Broxton will add some speed, power and depth to the Pirates’ bench for the last two weeks. He stole 39 bases in the minors this season, splitting his time between Altoona and Indianapolis. He was the only Pirates’ minor leaguer this season to reach double digits in doubles, triples, homers and steals.

This move also keeps Broxton from becoming a minor league free agent at the end of the season.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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